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This Guidance was published by the Department for Children, Schools and Families in 2010 (Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2010a), and sought to make sure that disabled children were offered good quality short breaks away from their families, to enable those families to have a break, and for that break to be experienced by a child as a positive time spent with another family with whom they become familiar. The Guidance looks at the use of foster carers for such breaks, alongside other provisions such as residential care.

The document brings together into one volume all the existing and new statutory Guidance relevant to the provision of short breaks for disabled children and their families. The main elements are:

 short breaks and the provision of accommodation;

 assessment, planning, implementation and review cycle for children using short breaks; and

 the different settings in which short breaks may take place.

(Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2010a, p3)